As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.
Call it the Great Resignation, the Great Attrition, the Great Boomer Goodbye, or something else, we're in a time of dramatic leadership turnover. That's a change that offers huge opportunities. If you are prepared. Here are tips for nonprofits to start succession planning and be ready for leadership transitions.
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A new report from Boston Indicators, in partnership with the Gastón Institute and the Latino Equity Fund, captures the challenges facing Massachusetts' unique Latino community, and previews potential opportunities to improve Latinos equity and wellbeing in the state.
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The Carlton Innovation School, a Grade K-5 innovation school in Salem, Mass., has been chosen as the winner of the 2022 Pozen Prize for Innovative Schools.
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The $200,000 in grants will support Latino-led and -serving organizations in Massachusetts whose work and operations have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the health and economic disruptions that have followed.
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The Latino Equity Fund announced $200,000 in grants to eight Latino-focused organizations as part of the COVID-19 Response Fund. These nonprofits will receive $25,000 each to provide enhanced services to help Latino communities recover from the impact of COVID-19 and the longer-term economic challenges unleashed by the pandemic.
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'Avancemos ya!' a report by the Boston Indicators, the Latino Equity Fund, and the Gastón Institute at UMass Boston, shows that Latinos in MA fare worse economically than Latinos do nationally, and than other racial subgroups in the state.
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Juan Fernando Lopera, co-chair of the Latino Equity Fund at The Boston Foundation, and Lorna Rivera, director of the Gastón Institute at UMass Boston, joined Jim Braude to discuss possible solutions for major economic disparities in MA's Latino community.
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King Boston will host a week-long festival, The Embrace Ideas Festival, in June 2022 grounded in arts, culture, and public scholarship amplifying anti-racism and a vision for a transformed Boston.
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The new report by Boston Indicators, in partnership with the Gastón Institute and the Latino Equity Fund, explores the historic and demographic qualities that make Massachusetts Latinos unique, and provides critical insights into the opportunities to improve Latino equity in the post-pandemic era.
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This new report looks at the multiple issues facing the child care system in Massachusetts, and the cost of our continued neglect on parents, early childhood staff and businesses.
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The 2021 Annual Report from the Boston Foundation features interviews with community leaders focused on addressing Boston's critical issues in equity, working to ensure that our moment of change becomes a movement. Read the report and explore full transcript of all ten interviews.
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A review from ChildObesity180 of the Boston Foundation's investments in improving physical activity in schools finds much impact, despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The new edition of the Boston Foundation newsletter features a conversation with Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House, Rep. Katherine Clark on potential solutions to the early education crisis, plus an exploration of the Chelsea 2021 initiative, an innovative grantmaking effort that brought together donors with nonprofit and community leaders.
